As long as President Trump is in office, they will never have a nuclear weapon.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
I’m not going to comment on internal political matters. That’s for the Indian people to decide and navigate.
Let’s be very clear: There would be no Ukraine today were it not for the assistance the United States has supplied Ukraine in the billions of dollars going back to the Biden administration and going – and through this administration as…
What I can tell you with certainty is the President of the United States nor anyone in our system ever requested that any changes to that system be made.
Which will enrich the countries of the region while also bringing economic benefits to the United States.
We’ve allowed this point of view to be stigmatized as something that’s evil, when in fact it should embraced as – embraced as something that is good.
If you’re going to be a pro-America leader in a democracy, you have to go to voters and say, 'Guys, we are friends with the United States and here are the benefits of being a friend of the United States.
I think this an extraordinary achievement of President Trump and one that I just don’t think has gotten enough coverage yet.
I hope they’ve learned that lesson. It seems like they now are, but it takes time now to reverse-engineer 20 years of both this green hyperbole in terms of believing they’re going to go completely green.
The only culture, the only civilization in the world today who seems apologetic about its history and its achievements is the West.
President Trump has made it a cornerstone of his foreign policy that not only are we going to address and deal with the current problems of the world and the crises in the world, because those must be dealt with, but we are also, at the…
We in the United States want to see them thrive as independent states, and we want to partner with them as they do so.
Together, we can secure for our countries the resources, the investment opportunities, and the trade partnerships we need to remain – each of us – sovereign states, and to grow together our collective prosperity.
Central Asia is, in our view – I think the view of the world – it’s the heartland of both Asia and Europe.
When your national interests and our national interests are aligned – and they are, in so many areas – when what’s good for America is also good for you and vice versa, that is the foundation of these partnerships and these opportunities…
We respect the fact that your government will always put the national interest of your people and your nation first.
What I am proud of is that that began to change a decade ago and has really accelerated under the leadership of President Trump.
But I think often we have allowed the urgent and what’s before us in terms of a problem to sometimes cost us the opportunity.
I think for too long – this is a criticism of American foreign policy and American focus – I think for so long we’ve been captive to the crisis and to the problem.
The United States expects to conclude deals worth billions of dollars following my visit to Central Asia.
There's been talks of a meeting. I don't know whether it's been finalized, but the president has been clear. He'd like the war in Ukraine and Russia to end.





